Display device



' Sept. 5, 1939.

s. KisLEvrrz DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Nov. 22, 1957 TlBl.

INVENTOR SAMUEL KISLEVITZ Patented Sept. 5, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 11 Claims.

This invention pertains to display devices, and more particularly to the type of device which is folded and depressed in such a way that a movable part is hingedly or resiliently connected to a base or supporting member, said moveable part being positionable at an angle in relation to the supporting portion.

Advertising folders, display devices, childrens books and other media have been utilized in conjunction with cut-out figures of human beings, and for other representations such as houses, barns, bicycles, toys, etc., and these cut-out representations have been hingedly connected to base portions, and have had connections in one form or another for holding the cut-out representations at an angle to the base member when in an operative position. The connections between the base member and the cut out representation may have been a part of the general display or showing, and used to pull or draw the figured representations into their upright or operative positions.

The present invention employs a spring like or resilient, means, which may be an elastic band as shown, for the purpose of causing the figured member to be snapped or moved into an upright or operative position. This novel feature will permit a figured member to be held depressed by a page or other means, such as the cover of a book, and will cause the figured member, upon opening of the cover to snap or jump up into its erect or operative position. The depressed figured member will, by use of a cover or other closure means, repose in a substantially horizontal position until released.

It is therefore made an object of this invention to provide a device of the class described having a base member and a part hingedly connected thereto with means for causing said hinged part to be snapped into an operative position.

A further object is to provide a display device having a base and a cover member, and an object like member there between provided with a resilient contracting member for moving the object like member rapidly into an operative position when the cover like member is moved out of the path of the depressed object under the cover.

A further object is to provide a device of the class set forth which will be more positive in its operation.

A further object is to provide a base member having a moving part hingedly connected thereto with a resilient member to hold the moving part at an angle from the base when the device is operated, and having a means to hold the moving part in an inoperative position.

Other and further objects may be and may become apparent to those skilled in the art after a perusal of this invention. 1

Fig. 1 is a view with the movable inner part shown hingedly connected to the base and being in a depressed or inoperative condition and with the cover removed for sake of clarity.

Fig. 2 shows the movable inner part held in an 10 operative position.

Fig. 3 shows the movable inner member partly released by the slight opening of the cover, the movable member being drawn by the elastic band toward the operative position shown in Fig. 2.

Referring to Fig. 1, a base member 28 has connected thereto a part 5, which will be hereinafter called the strut for sake of description. strut and base may be cut from one piece of material such as cardboard, and in the instant case, 20 this is true, the strut being folded back on the base along a line between the points 6-8. Each of the slots 1-4 is cut inthe strut from a place on the bend 6-6 to a point somewhat distant from said 6-6 fold to a pair of points indicated 25 as 8-8.

In Fig. 2, it will be seen that a foot part 9, of the member folded at B6 is parallel to the base member and is secured thereto by an adhesive material, such as glue, the strut l0, being a con- 30 tinuation of said foot 9-, and folded along the line H. The part l2 which will hereinafter be referred to as a link I2, is folded at I3, shown as a dotted line in Fig. 1, and as a fold in Figs. 2 and 3. The link also has a fold at l4, shown as a dotted line in Fig. 1, and as a fold in Figs. 2 and 3, and another fold at 5, which is along line 6-6 which connect the link I2 to the base member I 6.

The resilient member or elastic band i? is held in four slots l8 cut in the link !2, to retain it in a given location on said link, and it will be observed that the link I 2, is wider on the fold I 3, than it is at either of the folds M and [5, which are about the same length. This feature is desirable to permit the elastic I1, to move freely Without becoming lodged or jammed between the opposing edges along the slit T, when the strut is moved into its closed or inoperative position substantially parallel to the base 116.

The view in Fig. 3, shows the elastic IT, in a stretched or extended condition, the elastic member tending to shorten its own length so as to tend to pull together the parts 18 and [9, which eifect may be seen on the strut II), which is restrained in its upward movement by impinging against the cover 20.

The distance from fold M, to fold I3, is greater than the distance from fold I5, to fold l3. While the M to l3 distance is greater than the IE to H! distance, the reverse may be true so that the l5 to is distance may be greater than the M to l3 distance. Regardless which, section of the link may be the longer distance between folds, it is pointed out that the distance from H. to [3, is greater when measured along the slit 1, edges via one fold, as I4, then it is when measured along the other slit 1, edge as via fold l5. This is done so that in the event the elastic were suitableior the result, the two sections l8 and 19, of the link [2, could not be moved substantially into the same plane, which would cause the strut to swing from its inoperative position through an arc of substantially degrees. be desirable, it is stated that the invention is not to be limited to making the sections l8 and IQ, of unequal length. 1

In operation when the strut ID, as held in its inoperative position by the cover 20, the base, strut and cover are all substantially in the same plane, but as soon as the cover or closure is' removed, the strut will snap upward to rest at an angle to its supporting base. The cover or closure 20, is hinged at 2|, shown dotted in Fig. 3, and is accomplished by folding the material along the dotted line 2|.

While specific details of this novel display device have been herein shown and described, the invention is not confined thereto as changes and alterations may be, and may become apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit thereof as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A display device formed from one piece of material comprising a base portion, acover therefor, and a strut member mounted on said base portion and movable between said base portion and said base cover, and a foldable link member having two ends, one end of which is secured contiguous to one of the peripheral edges of the base member, and the other end of said link mem her being hingedly engaged with said strut member.

2. A display device formedfrom one piece of material comprising a base portion, a cover there for, and a strut member mounted on said base portion and movable between said base portion and said cover, a link member having one edge thereof attached to the base portion and having its opposing end'attached to the strut member.

3. A display device formed from one piece of material comprising a base portion, a cover therefor, and a strut member mounted on said base portion and movable between said base. portion and said cover, a link member having one edge thereof attached to the base portion and having its opposing end attached to the strut member, and an elastic band tending to cause said link member to fold. back on itself.

Since this result may 4. A display device formed from one piece of material comprising a base portion, a cover therefor, and a strut member mounted on said base portion and movable between said base portion and said cover, a link member having one edge thereof attached to the base portion, and having its opposing end attached to the strut member, said link member having slots therein near its opposing ends and elastic means to engage said slots, said elastic means tending to cause said strut member to be moved from one plane to another.

:5. In a device of the class described comprising a pair of closure members hingedly connected 7 together along one edge, and a movable member resilientlymounted on one of said closure members, a foldable link member having one end thereof fixed to the base member and the other end fixed to the movable member intermediate said closure members, and means engaging said foldable link tending to move said movable resilient member from one position to another.

6. In a device of the class described comprising a-pair of closure members hingedly connected together along one edge, and a movable member resiliently mounted on one of said closure members, a foldable link member having one end thereof fixed to the base member and the other end fixed to the movable member intermediate said closure members, and means engaging said foldable linktending to urge said movable resilient member from a horizontal position to substantially a vertical position.

'7. A display device having a base portion, a strut member, and a cover for said base portion, and strut limiting means securely fastened to said base portion and said strut member.

8. A display device having a base portion, a strut member hingedly mounted thereon, and a cover therefor, and link means fixedly engaging said base and said strut members to forcibly move said strut from a horizontal to substantially a vertical position.

9. A display device having a base portion, a strut member hingedly mounted on said base portion, and a cover for said base and said strut members, and foldable link means affixed to said base and said strut members to tend to move said strut member from one plane to another plane.

10. In a display device comprising a'pair of covers and a movable strut member hingedly connected to one of said covers, a foldable link means having one end thereof secured to one of said covers and the other end thereof secured to said strut member, and elastic means for moving said strut memberfrom one positionto another position. v

11. A device of the class described comprising a pair of covers, a movable strut member connected to one of said covers, a rubber band cooperating with said strut member and one of said covers to urgesaid strut member away fromits respective cover,.and strut limiting means to control the ultimate operative position of said strut in relation to its supporting cover.

SAMUEL KISLEVTTZ. 

